An illuminated Qur'an North India, late 17th/18th Century


Arabic manuscript on paper, 286 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in small naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, gold dots between verses, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, catchwords, illuminated devices in outer margins, sura headings written in thuluth script in red ink within illuminated rectangular panels, illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, later brown morocco with stamped central medallions and cornerpieces decorated with floral motifs, with flap, rebacked 128 x 80 mm.
|ProvenanceFormerly in the possession of Dr. Rauf, Belgian Ambassador to India, and presented to him in Brussels, 22nd February 1967 (according to a handwritten note pasted on to the front doublure).